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		<title>Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radu Muntean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[After Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuesday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage stands as one of the most beautiful, and most ancient of all human institutions—unchanged in recorded human history. As such, it has presented one of the most tantalizing themes for filmmakers, many of whom have attempted to look at the institution in its most tragic incarnation, portraying the breakdown of a marriage. Most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=745&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun Shines Bright (1953)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sun Shines Bright]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Ford is generally known for his westerns starring John Wayne, the larger than life hero set against the backdrop of Monument Valley. However, Ford made a wide variety of films, some large and others small. And it was of these latter pictures that Ford once said, “My most beautiful pictures are not westerns; they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=679&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Sunshine (2007)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/secret-sunshine-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Chang-dong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret Sunshine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Secret Sunshine opens with a shot of the sky. A few clouds drift by, but otherwise, the bright blue background dominates. The film closes with a shot of a dirt patch. Garbage circles the perimeter, but otherwise, the dark brown background dominates. It wouldn’t be incorrect to infer a downward movement in the film from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=739&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Lights (1931)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/city-lights-1931/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Lights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931) presents a portrait of humanity that expands and challenges even the most savvy viewer. The story follows Chaplin’s Little Tramp character, a man without material resources, yet who shows himself to be the most resourceful character in the film. Early on, he meets a blind flower girl and falls in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=674&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/a-charlie-brown-christmas-1965/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bill Melendez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.” So says Linus at the penultimate moment of 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas. The film follows a December day in the life of Charles Schulz’s endearing Peanuts characters. Typically, Charlie Brown gets rejected at every turn, a girl haughtily telling him that she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=730&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a Country Priest (1951)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/diary-of-a-country-priest-1951-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bresson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diary of a Country Priest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly I am finding disjunction as a means of producing a transcendent vision highlighted in the cinema of Robert Bresson. A recent viewing of his 1951 adaptation of Georges Bernanos’ novel, Diary of a Country Priest has strengthened my perception of this Bressonian strategy. One of the more notable qualities of Bresson’s films beginning with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=711&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Virgin Spring (1960)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-virgin-spring-1960/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ingmar Bergman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Virgin Spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring stands as something of an anomaly in his career—one of the few films he directed but did not write. Yet despite this outlier status, the film feels much of a piece with Bergman’s other work, particularly that series of features beginning with The Seventh Seal and ending with The Silence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=694&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Land is Mine (1943)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/this-land-is-mine-1943/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Renoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This Land is Mine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a movie engages in propaganda, we see in it a power play, often a desire on the filmmaker’s part to bend the audience member’s opinion through dishonest and/or manipulative means. We see this most regularly in religious films, and widely in war or politically-themed works (think Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will). Jean Renoir’s 1943 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=683&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25th Hour (2002)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/25th-hour-2002/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spike Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[25th Hour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spike Lee’s 25th Hour (2002) offers a fine example of a film bringing a material context to the screen through its visuals. The film follows New York City drug dealer Monty Brogan the day before turning himself in for a seven-year prison sentence. He spends the day reflecting on how he’s arrived at this place in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=671&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)</title>
		<link>http://gladsomemorning.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/werckmeister-harmonies-2000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bela Tarr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Werckmeister Harmonies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How mysterious is the Lord that he amuses himself with such strange creatures!  –Janos, Werckmeister Harmonies Bela Tarr’s magnificent Werckmeister Harmonies offers a beautifully bleak portrait of the narrowness of modern life. The film opens with Janos in a barroom at closing time, prepared to illustrate for the drunken men the workings of the cosmos. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gladsomemorning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=535251&amp;post=652&amp;subd=gladsomemorning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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